Do you know why blue-footed boobies have blue feet? Author Laura Erickson does, and you’ll find the answers to this and many ...

Sophisticated birdsong follows strict grammatical rules, much like human sentences. But what happens when birds can't hear ...

NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with Matthew Medler of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology about the best bird sounds of 2025 from their vast collection of recordings, and why their selections made the list.

The birds left Bavaria on the second Tuesday in August. They took off from an airfield, approximated a few sloppy laps, and then, such are miracles, began to follow a microlight aircraft, as ...

“I love BA staff, they’re the best in the world ... that his mother “loves traveling” though she doesn’t get to do it as much as she once did as she is mostly “based in the UK nowadays.” ...

A white-eye bird flies over blossoms on a street of Guiyang City, southwest China's Guizhou Province, Feb. 8, 2025. (Xinhua/Liu Xu) A white-eye bird flies over blossoms on a street of Guiyang City ...

A new study shows the bird flu has silently spread from animals to some veterinarians. It echoes two smaller studies that ...

A photographer’s Covid-era hobby turned into a four-year project that produced around half a million photos. But one stood out from them all.

In 1799, during his explorations along the Orinoco River, German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt “stayed with a local ...

developing intensive biosecurity measures to try to block the routes of transmission from wild birds or other farms. Metz said the measures egg producers are taking now are extensive. "They have ...